Life Design Diaries | Business & Lifestyle Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ross Menghini & Lucy Menghini
A real-life, no BS approach to the art of structuring your life in the way you want.
Forget Instagram, forget your best life, this is an honest account into navigating this modern world as 30 somethings. Everything is possible and at our fingertips, yet this is often a curse as much as a gift. Sometimes it’s great & sometimes it’s not, we talk about it all.
From entrepreneurship, mindfulness, travel, relationships and everything in between, we think differently and believe in actively designing our lives.
Who are we? Lucy and Ross Menghini, we’re married, working for ourselves and on a pursuit to learn and share our experience.
If you’re interested in Life Design, join us.
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This week we’re reflecting on our experience as digital nomads for you to learn from our mistakes!
Where’s the best places to go?
How much money do you need?
How long to go for?
What’s the WiFi like?
Is the 4 hour work week even possible?
We discuss all of this on this episode, so if you’re interested in travelling the world whilst working as a digital nomad, this episode is for you!
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Do you want to become self employed this year? Are you keen to find out what life is really like on the other side of having a job?
If you want to make the leap away from employment and earn your own living, this episode is for you.
Matthew Knight is a Strategy and Innovation Partner working for himself. Having left his job years ago to pursue this new path, Matthew has firsthand experience of the ups and downs that come with self employment.
In this episode, we discuss many of the areas that aren’t often told. Struggles with mental health, imposter syndrome, clients, companionship and more.
These are all such important topics, especially when you step into the uncertain path of self employment. I say this because going it alone brings a whole host of questions, choices and challenges. The so called ‘freedom’ that comes with working independently can very often lead to overwhelm, uncertainty and difficulty and we discuss our experiences of all these during this conversation.
Matthew was completely honest and authentic and I know this insight will be so useful to so many people in a similar situation.
Please enjoy my conversation with Matthew Knight.
REFERENCES:
- Leapers.co
- thinkplaymake.co
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Welcome again to Life Design Diaries, the business and lifestyle podcast where we bring you interesting conversations with interesting people.
On todays episode, I’m speaking with Tristan Thomas who is the Head of Marketing and Community at Monzo.
Monzo is the bank of the future. Since they started they’ve been busy building the best current account in the world an they now have more than one million customers using their debit cards. Unlike traditional banks, they have no high street premises, instead their service is provided by their app making it convenient and relevant to its customers.
To give you a slight insight into how popular this bank is becoming, recently they raised an additional £20m from a crowdfunding campaign… £18m of it came in just 2 hours and 45 minutes.
People who use Monzo, often turn into raving fans. Think about it, when was the last time you heard someone raving about a bank?
Tristan has pretty much been there from the start to drive this success and he’s only 26.
Please enjoy my conversation with Tristan Thomas.
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“How can brands be built with customers” - Jamal Benmiloud
This week we’re thrilled to welcome a fantastic marketer and business owner, Jamal Benmiloud.
Jamal has had a glowing career. Having risen to become Head of Marketing at Redbull and VP Marketing at Monster Energy, he decided to stretch himself even further and start his own consultancy, EARN Studios.
Now Jamal works at Non Executive Director at Huel, a company we know well from episode #34 with Huel founder Julian Hearn.
This episode is one of our favourites by far! There is so much to learn from Jamal’s approach to business and life in general. In particular, we discuss:
- His and his wife’s goal setting process - a really interesting process
- Starting and maintaining a lean operation
- Challenging the conventions of marketing agencies
- His experience writing his new book, Brand Love
- How Jamal approaches business ideas
- Some of the more challenging times when running your own business
REFERENCES
- Brand Love - How To Build A Brand Worth Talking About - Jamal Benmiloud, Graham Brown & Paul O’Shannessey
- EARN Studios
- Jamal LinkedIn
- Huel
- One Simple Idea - Stephen Key
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I feel strange.
I'm not quite as busy as I could be, and it's giving me more time for chats and side projects, but I'm feeling like I am not really doing anything productive.
Why are we so tuned to feel like doing paid work is productive, but doing exploration, investment in yourself and future-facing work is less important?
If it was anyone else, i'd be telling them to embrace the quiet times, and make best use of it... but following your own advice is far harder than dishing it out.
That was the LinkedIn post I stumbled across which lead me to todays guest.
I didn’t write this post, and neither did she, but it was her answer to this post, addressing this situation of feeling unproductive when focussing on yourself that got me fascinated into how she thinks.
Rachel Tillman is a psychotherapist, she helps people and organisations, successfully navigate change as they work toward wholeness and more meaningful engagement. She uses creative, refreshing, and honest ways to do this and believes work should be life-giving.
Yes, on this podcast we’ve had on what you’d call ‘successful’ founders of companies in recent weeks to learn how they built the brands they are so proud of, but I’m so excited to share with you this episode with Rachel and provide a fascinating perspective on a whole host of topics that can no doubt help all of us listening in whatever pursuit you have.
Just a quick caveat, none of Rachel’s advice should be taken as medical advice. More, her thoughts on these wide ranging topics
Its a good one, please enjoy my conversation with Rachel Tillman.
REFERENCES
Rachel Tillman LinkedIn
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Sarah Knight is a New York Times Bestselling author. She’s written the fantastic books: The Life Changing Magic Of Not Giving A F*k, Get Your Sht Together, You Do You, Calm The Fuck Down.
These four magical books helped me personally make a mental pivot in my mind to break free of mental guilt, worrying and letting my own mind hold me back, paving the way for a happier, simpler life!
I’m very excited to share my conversation with Sarah herself, we have a chat about her lifestyle now in a sleepy coastal town in the Dominican Republic, her pilgrimage through each book, reactions to her no-fucks given approach and her new book, Calm The F**k Down.
Please enjoy my conversation with Sarah Knight.
BOOKS
- The Life Changing Magic Of Not Giving A F**k
- Get Your Sh*t Together
- You Do You
- Calm The Fuck Down
REFERENCES
- No Fucks Given Guides
- Sarah Knight Instagram
- Sarah Knight Twitter
- No Fucks Given Guides Instagram
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"Are you working on the hardest part?"
On this episode we discuss the the main milestone you should look to achieve immediately when taking the leap into entrepreneurship.
We’ve learned this through personal experience and discussing it with everyone we’ve interviewed on this podcast.
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If we feel bad when comparing ourselves to others, then we should simply stop comparing... Sound advice yes, but often a lot harder to do than the ‘simply’ suggests.
The Will Smith Effect is a concept I’ve created after mulling over this scenario for the past few months. It’s a different approach and I’d love to hear if you agree/disagree. Get in touch on Instagram to join in the conversation and let us know what you think.
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“Think like a big business and act like a small one”
What's the worst that can happen?
Well, when The Primal Pantry, a Paleo brand on a mission to start a real-food revolution, slipped from the heights of growing a £1.7m turnover business in only 3 years, to running out of cash and having to take a significant loan from an employee, this mantra of ‘what's the worst that can happen’ would surely have taken on a whole new meaning.
Welcome back to Life Design Diaries, I’m Lucy Menghini and on this episode I’m speaking with Suzie Walker, founder of the Primal Pantry.
It was amazing to get to know Suzie and hear her fascinating story including how she started, her path to growth and how she navigated this particularly tricky time all whilst balancing the rest of her life including being a great mum to her daughter.
If you’re looking to start or progress within the food industry, this episode provides some great advice for you. And if you’re not in the food game, you can take so much from Suzie’s thought process, approach to growth and decisions she’s made.
Suzie also reveals her 4 tips for maintaining a healthy diet later in the episode.
Please enjoy this episode with Suzie Walker, founder of The Primal Pantry.
REFERENCES:
- Primal Pantry Website
- Suzie’s LinkedIn
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In this very first episode of #Distilled, we discuss our recent meeting with The Gypsy Shrine founder Jenna Meek.
This is a summary of the key points we picked out when speaking with Jenna, making the lessons easy for you to digest and translate for yourself.
If you haven’t listened to the full episode with Jenna, catch it at #41 The Gypsy Shrine | Going Viral By Breaking The Rules With Jenna Meek
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Hands up if you would like to be the owner of a brand that has grown so fast that in less than 3 years, that its gone from zero to turning over millions of pounds?
What about if you could take that brand into huge partnerships with some of the most sought after retailers in the UK? And what about if you could, say, have fans for your brand including Kylie Jenner, the whole love island cast and 342k of them on instagram.
Have you got your hand raised?
The Gypsy Shrine is the brand that has managed to do all of the above, like I said, in just three short years. The Gypsy Shrine is a creative cosmetic brand. They make face glitter, body jewels, glitter bums, glitter boobs, basically everything glitter and are adding to their products all the time as we discuss later.
I spoke with Jenna Meek, founder of the Gypsy Shrine and discussed the fascinating story how she and her, now growing team have managed to get into places the quite frankly, most startups would only dream about.
You’re of course listening to Life Design Diaries. I’m Ross Menghini and in typical fashion for this podcast, we’re not going to focus just on the sparkle, but dig deeper, into what its REALLY like to be the founder of such a business.
Jenna shared so much good stuff in this talk and I’m also honoured as this is Jenna’s first podcast interview, and so… you heard it here first, Jenna Meek of the Gypsy shrine .
REFERENCES IN THIS EPISODE
- The Magic Of Thinking Big - David J Schwartz
- Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway - Susan Jeffers
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This episode I’m joined by Johnny FD - A full time digital nomad with many fingers in many pies and as you will hear during this episode, is LOVING every minute of his experience.
Welcome back to Life design diaries the business and lifestyle podcast and if there’s any man in the world blurring the lines between business and lifestyle it is Johnny FD.
For the last 10 years Johnny has been on the move, working on his businesses whilst travelling the globe and for Lucy and I, he was actually had a huge influence on our travels by introducing us to Chiang Mai.
Johnny has many ventures, he’s big in Ecommerce, building and selling three stores, has written books, is a frequent travel blogger and he’s earned over a million dollars whilst travelling. How do I know this? well, he releases his income report every month.
Why? you may be thinking. Listen to the podcast to find out..
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Today we’re answering a great question sent in from Dan about agency life and the opportunities & challenges that come with it.
Now we may be biased, but wanted to share our opinion and experiences since we both have worked in different agencies over the years.
We cover the best bits and the worst bits, so if you’re interested in getting some more exposure in a new working environment, have a listen to this one.
If you want to ask us a question, head over to our Website, Instagram or Twitter and get in touch!
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This episode is all about TAKING RISKS.
We’re answering one of your questions about risk in our lives:
“How do you have the courage to take risks in life? Leaving a stable, successful career to travel and start your own ventures nearing your 30s must be a difficult, no doubt scary decision to make!”
Get involved and ask us one of your questions for us to answer on an upcoming episode.
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In episode we bring you our review on the Oak App.
Available on iOS here https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oak-meditation-breathing/id1210209691
Not sponsored, just love it.
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FREEBIE GIVEAWAY
We’ve produced The Outreach Guide PDF providing all the information discussed here plus some great example outreach emails that work.
Download the Freebie here at lifedesigndiaries.com
In this episode we break down the key elements we’ve learned on how to get in front of people.
If you’re looking to contact someone for any reason, this episode can help you whether you’re looking for a new job, event sponsorship, looking to make a sale or simply want to expand your network, the elements here can be applied to all situations.
Download the Freebie here at lifedesigndiaries.com
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On this episode we discuss openly the question we’re often asked:
“What do you do?”
Does the answer to this question define us? Because it can often feel like it does, and that your current career is your worth.
- How do you answer this question?
- Why do we ask this question?
- Should we feel bad, or good, by our answer to this?
- How to answer it?
All discussed on this episode, we hope you enjoy!
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This is my favourite conversation yet. On this episode of LIFE DESIGN DIARIES we welcome Julian Hearn, founder of Huel.
Huel (human-fuel) is a nutritionally complete powdered food that contains everything you need for a healthy, balanced diet. With the company only three years old and a turnover of £14m last year, Huel has raced to become one of the UK’s fastest growing companies.
Julian however was so close to giving up on his idea many many times. His story is inspiring and in this wide ranging conversation, we discuss:
- Julian’s fascinating experience leading him to the development of Huel
- How Julian transitioned from an unfulfilling job to become a successful business owner
- Creating a strong brand that people love
- The importance of social media whilst starting up
- The ups and down of the food industry
- Much much more
REFERENCES
- Huel
- Julian Hearn on Twitter
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When Oliver Bolton ordered 250,000 cans of his new drinks brand without any external market validation what so ever, he probably found himself in a little bit of a rut. Fast forward to today, he has not only made a success of that first business but evolved to create various drinks brands that you may have come across.
The particular brand I’m familiar with and enjoy is ‘What A Melon’ which is a brand of watermelon water.
In this conversation, Olly tells us how the idea for ‘What A Melon’ was born, his experience winning the Richard Brandson backed Virgin VOOM crowdfunded campaign which raising £77,000 and what life is now like as a drinks brand owner stocked in most food and drink retailers in the UK.
I spoke to Olly at their London HQ surrounded by as much melon merchandise as you could imagine. The walls were melon, the drinks were melon, the carpets were melon there was even a melon bike in the room.
Please enjoy my conversation with Oliver bolton
REFERENCES
- What A Melon
- Waterbomb
- Almond.io
- Crowdfunder Video
- Medium
- How Bad Are Bananas - Mike Berners-Lee
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“I’ve spent my life always wanting to have my own business”
Welcome to another episode of life design diaries where Lucy and I share simplified knowledge to help you live a fulfilling life on your own terms.
Now, if you’ve ever found yourself wanting a business but you just don’t have the idea yet then this interview is for you!
Andy Jefferies from Dock & Bay tells us his story of how he struggled to find his business idea, how he eventually found it, and the rapid journey that has now lead him on. This journey includes quitting his corporate career, going travelling and eventually arriving at Dragons Den, which for our American listeners is similar to shark tank.
Dock and Bay’s first product was the original quick-dry beach towels and with a polished pitch and beautiful brand, they not only secured Deborah Meaden as a new business partner but the grabbed the attention of the public watching and sold over 6000 units in 48 hours.
Another persons attention they captured was mine, and so thats why I’m particularly excited to share with you my conversation with Andy Jefferies.
REFERENCES
- Dock & Bay
- Andy’s Dragons Den Pitch
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Predictably Irrational By Dan Ariely is the seventh & final book in our ‘7 Books That Changed Our Lives’ mini series.
In this episode, we cover:
- A short overview of the book
- The key lesson we took from the book
- How we applied that lesson to our life and how you can too
Listen to this short episode to hear our overview, thoughts and lessons learned from Predictably Irrational.
If you think we’ve missed something or have a great book recommendation for us, let us know at
https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com
This episode is the last in our mini series - The 7 Books That Changed Our Lives. If you haven’t listened to the other episodes, make sure you check them out now.
REFERENCES
Predictably Irrational By Dan Ariely
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How To Win Friends And Influence People By Dale Carnegie is the sixth book in our ‘7 Books That Changed Our Lives’ mini series.
In this episode, we cover:
- A short overview of the book
- The key lesson we took from the book
- How we applied that lesson to our life and how you can too
Listen to this short episode to hear our overview, thoughts and lessons learned from How To Win Friends & Influence People.
If you think we’ve missed something or have a great book recommendation for us, let us know at
https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com
This episode is part of our mini series - The 7 Books That Changed Our Lives. If you haven’t listened to the other episodes, make sure you check them out.
REFERENCES
How To Win Friends And Influence People By Dale Carnegie
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The 4-Hour Work Week By Tim Ferriss is the fifth book in our ‘7 Books That Changed Our Lives’ mini series.
In this episode, we cover:
A short overview of the book
The key lesson we took from the book
How we applied that lesson to our life and how you can too
Listen to this short episode to hear our overview, thoughts and lessons learned from The 4 Hour Work Week.
If you think we’ve missed something or have a great book recommendation for us, let us know at
https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com
This episode is part of our mini series - The 7 Books That Changed Our Lives. If you haven’t listened to the other episodes, make sure you check them out.
REFERENCES
The 4-Hour Work Week By Tim Ferriss
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Derek Sivers’ Blog on drama is the fourth book in our ‘7 Books That Changed Our Lives’ mini series.
“Having drama in your life is a choice”
This is actually a blog post rather than a book however it’s such a great piece of writing and has had such an impact on our lives that we wanted to include it in this mini series.
In this episode, we cover:
- A short overview of the blog
- The key lesson we took from the blog
- How we applied that lesson to our life and how you can too
Listen to this short episode to hear our overview, thoughts and lessons learned from Derek Sivers’ Blog.
If you think we’ve missed something or have a great book recommendation for us, let us know at https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com
This episode is part of our mini series - The 7 Books That Changed Our Lives. If you haven’t listened to the other episodes, make sure you check them out.
REFERENCES
- Derek Sivers’ Blog on drama
- Our blog on no drama
- The Obstacle Is The Way - Ryan Holiday
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The Book Of Joy by Dalai Lama is the third book in our ‘7 Books That Changed Our Lives’ mini series.
In this episode, we cover:
- A short overview of the book
- The key lesson we took from the book
- How we applied that lesson to our life and how you can too
Listen to this short episode to hear our overview, thoughts and lessons learned from The Book Of Joy.
If you think we’ve missed something or have a great book recommendation for us, let us know at https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com
This episode is part of our mini series - The 7 Books That Changed Our Lives. If you haven’t listened to the other episodes, make sure you check them out.
REFERENCES
The Book Of Joy by Dalai Lama
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The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson is the second book in our ‘7 Books That Changed Our Lives’ mini series.
In this episode, we cover:
- A short overview of the book
- The key lesson we took from the book
- How we applied that lesson to our life and how you can too
Listen to this short episode to hear our overview, thoughts and lessons learned from The Slight Edge.
If you think we’ve missed something or have a great book recommendation for us, let us know at https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com
This episode is part of our mini series - The 7 Books That Changed Our Lives. If you haven’t listened to the other episodes, make sure you check them out.
REFERENCES
The Slight Edge - Jeff Olson
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Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki is the first book in our ‘7 Books That Changed Our Lives’ mini series.
In this episode, we cover:
- A short overview of the book
- The key lesson we took from the book
- How we applied that lesson to our life and how you can too
Listen to this short episode to hear our overview, thoughts and lessons learned from Rich Dad Poor Dad.
If you think we’ve missed something or have a great book recommendation for us, let us know at https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com
This episode is part of our mini series - The 7 Books That Changed Our Lives. If you haven’t listened to the other episodes, make sure you check them out.
REFERENCES
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
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This is our first mini series covering The 7 Books That Changed Our Lives.
Books are a key part of our education and we get asked for book recommendations a lot from our listeners. Because of this, we wanted to put together a mini series covering our favourites to give you a great insight of each.
These will not simply be book reviews however. Instead, we want to pick out the key lesson we've taken from each book and how we applied it so you can see tangible application of the lessons in each book.
In this mini series, you will find out:
- A short overview of each book
- The key lesson we took from each book
- How we applied that lesson to our life and how you can too
We’d love to hear your book recommendations! Head over to https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com to get in touch and listen to the whole mini series.
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On this episode of LIFE DESIGN DIARIES, we answer another one of your questions. If you would like to ASK us a question, please visit https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com/ask
Here is the question in full:
“Often It feels like women need to have it all, career, family, beauty, social life, domestic control, finances in check. Statistically, even when women are in high power jobs they still end up doing more of the ‘home’ tasks... it’s just feels HARD. Even though it’s probably more equal than it ever has been.
Lucy do you ever struggle with your identity as a ‘woman’ and which of these things you ‘should be’ doing? And do you think Ross has the same worries?
Ross - for you as a white man, do you have any advice to woman feeling under confident because of these pressures?”
We candidly discuss how women progress and stand on an equal playing field in 2018, and our thoughts on how women can grow a family and work at the same time.
We also talk about how clickbait, fake news and influential voices are incorrectly informing our opinions, and how important it is to be able to shut out the noise and make your own mind up.
We break down how we personally keep things level and balanced in our own relationship.
REFERENCES
- Get involved and ASK us a question HERE
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If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
Approaching our sixth month travelling the world and only two weeks until we briefly touch ground on UK soil, we’ve found ourselves in quite a reflective mood on our experience to date.
In this episode of LIFE DESIGN DIARIES we look back at what we’ve learned whilst travelling the world, how we will be applying these lessons in the future and how you can too.
In a short space of time, we’ve travelled to 14 countries and had countless experiences that we’ll remember for the rest of our lives.
We’ve summarised the top lessons into 4 points to make it easy for us to remember and for you to apply.
Listen to the episode to hear what our top 4 lessons learned whilst travelling the world are!
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This episode is bought to you by TETTA one of Lucy’s very own companies. We’re extremely proud and excited to bring you this landmark episode by TETTA as it’s also an announcement of a big milestone for the company this week.
Having achieved a successful Kickstarter campaign last year, this week TETTA have now fulfilled all 500 backer orders consisting of 7000 hand stitched tassels!
TETTA is a clothing brand - tees, sweatshirts and earrings that all include tassels in some form. Having experienced cancer in the family last year, Lucy started TETTA alongside her cousin Georgia as a way to raise awareness and create a positive outcome to such a horrific and challenging situation.
Yes the clothes look great, but the real beauty in the brand is the impact they’re making to peoples lives. A portion of TETTAs tassels are hand made by people who’ve been touched in any way by cancer. These are people with cancer currently, have survived cancer or are wanting to support the cause regardless.
Making tassels in a therapeutic achievement and so far, TETTA has brought together over 50 people and growing who are all willing and proud to support the cause and raise awareness.
TETTA wants you to check your TETTAS! (which is your breasts in Italian) to spot any indication of cancer early on and help prevent it, and yes that means us guys too.
To celebrate this huge milestone, TETTA is having a 20% sale on all their products so head over to https://www.tetta.co.uk/ and take a look.
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If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
After a few weeks of feeling frustrated, irritated and overwhelmed, Ross finally has a breakthrough on getting out of his own mind to help push his businesses and ideas forward.
This common phase many people - business owners or employees - face, is all too common and tricky to alleviate.
We take you through the steps Ross took, and his advice on how he arrived feeling much more in control and productive.
In this episode of LIFE DESIGN DIARIES, we take you through:
- Over thinking is bad for business
- Chunking down your vision to simple steps in 24 hour periods
- How to go from thinking to doing
- It’s ok to be naive
- Finding the perfect wrong answer
- Failing is the only path
Our advice comes from inspiration from the Humans of New York interview with Tim Ferris and also taking some lessons from TETTA.
We hope you enjoy this episode and it helps you if you’re feeling stuck or deflated. We’d really love to hear you tips and hacks you find helpful too. Please share with us via our Instagram @lifedesigndiaries or via our website www.lifedesigndiaries.com.
There are currently a whopping 50 iTunes reviews of our podcast, we take on board and thoroughly read each and every one of them. We can’t thank you all enough for taking the time to leave them.
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- Design Drop Email
- The Tim Ferriss Show - Humans of New York
- TETTA
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Ross + Lucy
Topics discussed on our podcast: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
A big happy birthday to the Dalai Lama, a big source of inspiration for today’s podcast.
“The three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous.” - Dalai Lama
We take you through our thoughts after Lucy was recently praised for being selfish. Something she immediately thought of as a negative trait and took offence too. However, it inspired her to ponder on the topic and try to better understand the motivation of the comment.
We discuss the difference between happiness and joy, feeling guilty for doing what you love, biting the bullet, if you were in a life threatening car accident, and learning how to take the positives in everything life throws at you.
Lucy’s Joy Exercise
- What would bring me more joy?
ie. learning something new, (for me it’s aromatherapy when I’m home)
- What holds back joy?
ie. comparing yourself to others
- What negative things do I do that makes joy fleeting?
ie. spending too much time on Instagram
- How can I change joy from a state to a trait?
ie. practicing meditation
- What brings me joy, not happiness?
ie. star grazing, waking up next to your loved on, a hug from a friend
- Where do I place blame when I’m annoyed?
ie. (it’s important to start with yourself) my tendency to assume
- How can I override those defaults?
ie. practise lowering expectations and reliance on others
REFERENCES
- The Book of Joy - Dalai Lama (thank you for the recommendation Sarah!)
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
- Design Drop Email
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We really hope you enjoy this podcast and it brings you joy! Do you agree with our opinion on being selfish?
There are currently a whopping 50 iTunes reviews on our podcast, we take on board and thoroughly read each and every one of them. We can’t thank you all enough for taking the time to leave them.
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Topics discussed on our podcast: happiness, mindset, positivity, life, meditation, inner peace, yoga, spirituality, goal setting, humanity, love, Dalai Lama, Buddhism
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
In this episode of LIFE DESIGN DIARIES, we answer two listener questions:
- Would you go back into employment
- Would society be better if freelancing was the norm?
We give two different perspectives based on each of our experiences and share two differing opinions for you to consider.
We’ve both been employed, freelanced and owned our own businesses and are really glad one of you asked this question as it’s a topic we know so many people debate daily.
We hope our perspectives help you with your own situation and supports you to take the path you want.
If you would like us to answer one of your questions in a future episode, please head over to lifedesigndiaries.com/question and submit your question now.
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
We discuss how significant or rather insignificant our human lives are. Yes this episode of LIFE DESIGN DIARIES gets pretty deep!
We also tackle the topic of PERMISSION because if we internalise just how short a time we have on this planet, then why is it we have things we want to do yet don’t do them?
Who are we waiting for to give us permission? How can we operate in a way that we take control and pursue the things we want without getting caught up and hindered by life’s many challenges?
We cover a lot in this episode including:
- Time
- How to change your perspective
- Overcoming stresses and holding grudges
- How to use a fear of dying as a positive, humbling motivator
- Focussing on what’s within your control
- How and why you really can do whatever you want to do in this world
- How tech is changing the way we capture and share info
- Permission
- How only you can give yourself permission to do what you want
- Feedback. Seeking feedback and understanding its context
- Tips for taking advise, including your own
- Thinking/knowledge vs acting on that knowledge
REFERENCES
- Steve Jobs Talk
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
When to have kids? Where to have kids? Can you travel with kids?
In this episode of LIFE DESIGN DIARIES we answer your question about children.
If you would like us to answer one of your questions in a future episode, please head over to lifedesigndiaries.com/question and submit your question.
This episode is slightly new territory for us and so we would love to know what you think. The topic of children and when/where to possibly have them is not an easy one! We’re sharing our current views on the subject and would love to hear your feedback on how you find this episode in comparison to our usual ones.
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
This episode is all about property and investing. We answer your question that has been submitted via our website:
“Please advise on how to get on the property ladder. Also how do you identify what’s a good investment?”
If you would like to ask us a question for a future episode, please head over to https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com/question
It’s important to remember that property is a type of investment and as with any investment, there are pros and cons.
We share our experience and learnings of building a property portfolio which of course starts with buying our first property. How we did I it and different ways in which you can get into property investing.
We talk about the importance of saving. Plus how you can educate yourself on money to improve your all round financial education.
As well as an overview, we also discuss the specifics of what to look for in a solid property investment. Where to buy and what fundamentals to look for.
We get asked a lot about how we’ve managed to build a large property portfolio at a young age and so are really keen to share this episode with you. We hope it gives you the basis of knowledge needed to get started.
This is an overview however, and if you would like more information or one to one support, please message us via email lifedesigndiaries@gmail.com and we’d be happy to help!
References
- Slight Edge
- Deloitte Crane Watch
- How The Economic Machine Works | Ray Dalio
- The Property Podcast
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
Disclosure
We are not financial advisors and this episode represents our person thoughts on the topics of property investment. You can also seek out full financial support before investing to ensure you’re fully educated before putting your money at risk.
We discuss the tricky last month we’ve had travelling which the develops into a more detailed conversation on stress.
Recording this from Sri Lanka, we’ve recently experienced the uncomfortable periods and moments that come with travel and discuss our last few weeks in Chaing Mai Thailand.
Travelling the world has so many upsides: the experiences, new cultures and freedom you have, however there is also a sacrifice that comes with travel. This week we discuss what those sacrifices are and give an insight into the negative side of travel.
Stress
Our topic of the week is stress. How and when we’ve felt stressed in the past and what we do to overcome stress.
We talk about the different types of stress and what you can do to change your own perspective that can benefit you and leave you feeling more positive.
Lucy has some interesting techniques and exercises for managing her mentality which we also wanted to share.
We hope you enjoy this episode!
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
This conversation delves far deeper than just Amazon tips.
When Irina Balyurko approached me to be on the show, I was particularly interested to hear how she realized that climbing the corporate ladder was taking her in the opposite direction of how she wanted to live. She took the decision to leave her prestigious role as a VP and go travelling with her husband and at the time, 18 month old son.
In this episode, we dig into into Irina’s story, how she evaluates risk, what it’s like travelling with a young son, and how to be stand out and be successful on Amazon.
The worlds largest online retailer Amazon is a huge opportunity for anyone wanting to explore commerce and selling products online.
Irina is now an e-commerce strategist who helps product-based brands launch and thrive on Amazon. Over her career, Irina has helped hundreds of brands generate millions of dollars in sales on Amazon, and achieve such results as, doubling sales in 3 months, and growing over 500% in sales in a year.
We also discuss some of the challenges faced when wanting to climb the corporate ladder as a mother but also wanting to balance seeing her son and family.
Amazon topics discussed:
- An introduction to Amazon
- Why Amazon is a large opportunity for anyone wanting to succeed online
- How to sell products on Amazon
- The different types of sales channels on Amazon
- How to get great reviews on Amazon
Rapid Fire Questions:
Most Recommended Book(s)
- You Are A Badass
- The 10x rule
- Essentialism
- Deep Work
Favourite Podcasts
- Eventual Millionaire
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
This episode features a full time Lifestyle Designer and entrepreneur Danny Flood.
Danny is the founder of OpenWordMag, an online publication and lifestyle design resource for freedom fighters, adventure seekers and courageous souls who never stop following their dreams.
Now into his 10th year as a nomad, Danny has picked up a wealth of experience, perspective and learnings throughout this time that leads to some fascinating conversation on this episode.
Danny also has his own podcast, The OpenWorld Podcast where he interviews other successful nomadic entrepreneurs to help his listeners find more freedom, love, passion and adventure in their lives.
This was a wide ranging conversation recorded from each end of Thailand and we covered many topics including:
- Lifestyle design. What is it and how to implement it into your own life
- How to be happy, find balance and fulfilment
- Life as a digital nomad
- What success looks like to Danny
- Practicing mindfulness
- Travel stories from India and Thailand
- Tips and tools for better time management including virtual assistant advice
- The number 1 hack for progression and learning
- Sleep advice
- Goal setting
And much, much more!
References
- Design Drop Email | Sign Up Here
- OpenWorldMag
- The OpenWorld Podcast
- Hack Sleep Book
- Autobiography Of A Yogi Book
- Dr Growth Book
- Upwork
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
This episode is PACKED full of practical advise, tips and lessons we’ve learned to grow your business.
Firstly we talk through how to change your thinking and answer the IMPORTANT questions in order to develop your brand.
Having struggled for many days putting a website together for a new product we’re launching, we reminded ourselves that people buy your mission (your WHY), rather than your product features.
Focussing on features alone is lazy thinking until you have developed the deeper, more meaningful mission of the company. That’s what people are going to relate to.
In the second half of the episode, we cover the topic of sales. We’ve both grown so much since we learned the art of sales and want to share our thoughts on just how important it is in everyday life as well as business.
We cover some practical tips we use to get in front of people and build a strong relationship.
This episode covers loads of topics within the two broad categories of your mission and sales. More specifically:
Your Mission:
- Why your mission is so important
- Practical steps to define your WHY
- Why you should stop thinking about your features and benefits and tackle the difficult questions in your business
- How to stand out in a crowded market
- No one cares about you or your product!
- Storytelling & finding a narrative within your business
- How to better understand your niche
- How to evolve emotion within your brand
Sales:
- Why everything is sales
- Why we need to stop seeing ‘sales’ as a negative word
- How to leverage larger companies to grow your business
- Practical methods to get in front of people
- The power of your existing network & how to use it
- How to write a great outreach email
- When to send outreach emails
- How to land the interview you want
- Importance of lasting impressions
References
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- Wix
- TETTA
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
Answering your anonymous listener question: “What’s your story as a couple?”
If you want to as your own question to be answered on a future episode, head over to https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com/question
This episode is a light hearted, short episode where we respond to one of your anonymous questions, this time about us as a couple.
We are by no means relationship gurus! However have the experience of being together for many many years and found this episode really fun to reflect on some of the key ingredients to a happy relationship.
Amongst some of the very vulnerable topics, we discuss:
- Our history as a couple
- Why you need to be the number one priority in a relationship
- Secrets to a happy relationship
- The importance of independence in a relationship
- Trust and communication
- How to keep a relationship interesting over time
- Our thoughts on when we’ll have kids!
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
In this episode we tackle goal setting: how to do it and how to simplify it. We also talk about the lessons learned reflecting on 12 months since starting a business and we give an overview on our current location, Chiang Mai.
When we woke on our first day in Chiang Mai, we sat out on our balcony, coffee in hand, and talked through goals we’d set in Bali and Vietnam, what we’ve achieved, what we hadn’t & why we hadn’t. Recalibrate and set more for the next 4 weeks in Thailand.
This activity that we force ourselves to do has become an important activity for many different reasons, all of which we explain to you in our 10th episode.
This month also marks 12 months of being self employed for Lucy. We talk through how it all came about, her main lessons and reflect on important moments. It’s a great listen if you have itchy feet or just starting out for yourself. You’re not alone in your thoughts.
We also discuss:
- Goal setting
- How to take the leap into self employment
- Revisiting 12 months lessons on from starting a business
- When is the right time to start a business?
- Tips for moving through the feeling of being stuck
- How to make a decision and become a doer
- How to financially structure
- When is the right time to start a business
- Evaluating the risk
- Fulfilment of being self employed
- Advice for starting a business
- Getting comfortable with the unknown own
References
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
David Ralph is the host of the number 1 iTunes motivational podcast Entrepreneur Success Stories by Join Up Dots.
David is considered podcast royalty and has successfully monetized his passion, often earning 6 figures+ monthly through his podcast and other income streams.
David has interviewed hundreds of successful entrepreneurs and has grown his podcast empire to almost 1000 episodes to date.
We discuss David's story to get where he is today and how he designed his life to become one of the largest single produced podcasts in the world.
- When to say 'Hell Yeah' and when to say No with Derek Sivers influence.
- How to lose your ego
- Taking the leap into entrepreneurship
- Tackling burnout and how to streamline your life
- Pareto's 80/20 law to productivity
- Passive income and how to design a life with multiple income streams
- Advice to David's younger self
References
Tim Ferriss 4 Hour Work Week
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- Podcast Mastery
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
Our first Anonymous Question episode! If you want to submit your anonymous question for future episodes, head over to https://www.lifedesigndiaries.com/question and ask away.
We tackle a difficult topic in this episode: Hyper productivity and perfectionism. We answer ‘How do we maintain balance in life, work & relationships?'
With the current world hitting us from every angle with messages that we need to be better, richer, slimmer, more and live the ‘perfect’ life, we have some strong opinions on why this is wrong and how to manage it and take control.
We give a global perspective on the subject, having witnessed and studied how some of the far east behave and react.
We talk minimalism and the power it has to free the mind. After all, it’s important sometimes to ask yourself the question: What am I working so hard to keep up for? Is it the current pressures of society or is it your perception of those pressures?
We discuss the devastating news this week of DJ and producer Avicii. At only 28 years old it has come to light days ago that he sadly took his own life. Being the same age as him, this really hit home and made us evaluate some difficult questions on what happiness is and how you can never understand what someone else is thinking and so shouldn’t compare yourself to other people. It will only bring negativity.
Instead, the answer is surely to look internally. Focussing on yourself and doing the things YOU want to do.
We talk life coaches and mentors. How to find them and where we gather inspiration from.
Finally, we talk about how to do the things you want to do.
References
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
Imposter Syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon, fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a psychosomatic pattern in which people doubt their accomplishments and have a persistent, often internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud".
Analysis paralysis or paralysis by analysis is the state of over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome.
Both of these are experienced by us (and most people) most days. We dig into the definition of these and discuss some of the methods and rationalisation techniques we have used to overcome them, leading to positive outcomes.
References
Paradox Of Choice - Barry Schwartz
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
Our approach to starting a new business. We reveal how we started selling products online and sharing all our learnings along the way.
The often perceived huge hurdle of just starting and how you can use the tools available to quickly move from an initial idea to an online business.
The mindset required to start any business and practical tips to stay focussed.
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast can help.
References * Six Stories Etsy * How I Built This Podcast - Sarah Blakely * Wix.com
Catch LIFE DESIGN DIARIES on Website Instagram Facebook Topics discussed on our podcast: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startu
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
This is a Design Drop episode, giving a short insight into key moments and lessons we've experienced and want to share with you.
In this episode:
- How in a split second, not only did our perspective completely change but our entire comfort blanket was wiped away.
- How to take the learning from anything in life.
- How to dance to the rhythm of your headache.
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Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
We’ve got some explaining to do… in this episode we give some much requested context into what we’re working on whilst travelling the world. We also explain what Life Design is all about.
- The key decisions that got us to where we are
- Why Lucy left her Marketing Director role at Social Chain to go it alone
- Are you talking control of your own life?
- Launching a new podcast format
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- Website
Please let us know what you think of the podcast! We'll read out some of your feedback in our later podcasts!
Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
Lucy is considerably more positive about TETTA growth, we talk in detail about being over stretched and choosing what to work on, and we give some practical tips on getting an idea out of the ground with absolutely nothing but hustle.
- Hacks To Starting A Business With No Money Or Product
- What Output To Measure In A Start Up
- Why You Should Test Shit, And Test Again
- Deciding Where To Focus
- Finding Your Passion
- Hooray! A Positive TETTA Update
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Please let us know what you think! We'll read out some of your feedback in our later podcasts!
Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
It's New Years... well in Bali anyway.
We're cut off from the world for one whole day to celebrate Nyepi Day.
- Can you be successful whilst in a relationship
- Mindfulness and meditation
- Startup struggles
- Striving for more vs being content with the present
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Please let us know what you think! We'll read out some of your feedback in our later podcasts!
Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey
Our very first episode!
In this episode we introduce ourselves and the structure of the next couple of episodes. We also discuss the following questions:
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- How roosters, spiders and dogs interrupt everything
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- Why Ross MUST now complete a bungee jump
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- Lucy’s forever struggle with procrastination
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- Going deep with death bed thinking
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- What Lucy really felt on her wedding day
Catch LIFE DESIGN DIARIES on
Website
Please let us know what you think of the podcast! We'll read out some of your feedback in our later podcasts!
Lucy + Ross
If you're keen to start a business, make a change, become an entrepreneur, travel the world, become a digital nomad or any of the above, this podcast is designed to help you!
Each week we discuss topics such as: e-commerce, travel, starting a business, online, entrepreneurship, digital nomad, selling products, mindset, how to start, business, investing, startup.
Years Of Collected and Applied Learnings from the likes of Tim Ferriss, GaryVee, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Bartlett, NPR, How I Built This, Joe Rogan, TED, Planet Money, Jocko, Property Podcast, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Rob Moore, Aubery Marcus, Mark Manson, Simon Sinek, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey